The planet from nowhere!...
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Hey! I just had a planet show up that I know wasn't there before. In a system that I had already colonized, a large planet just showed up with my atmosphere!
Did anyone else experiance this?

Re: The planet from nowhere!...
 

I have had this experience.

Turned out to be an ally of mine with a planet creation ship that had cloaking ability. It went around making new planets out of the asteroid belts.

Re: The planet from nowhere!...
 

You may have also just brought in enough sensor power to break through a cloaking storm covering the planet... P&N has such things occur in the wonder systems.

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could it have been a TDM race?
Cloaked Planet creator?

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You could have also just witnessed a spatial warp(?) random event. They tend to shift planets and ships around the galaxy willy-nilly.

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yeah i once had a sun warped away...

j/k http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Spatial warp events don't warp planets... would be cool if they did though! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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A cloaked planet maker may be possible. There is no asteroid field in the system now. I AM playing against the TDM AI's in this game. I just never knew that the TDM's were programmed to use Planet Making components! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Re: The planet from nowhere!...
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh yes they do. I can verify that. They will make use of lots of the advanced Stellar Manipulation components. I have seen warp openers, star destroyers, planet makers. I usually don't let them get too far past the star destroyer stage before I have to take them out.

Slick.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those also occur in FQM, so if you were playing with it, check for storms. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Can a cloaked ship actually do stellar manipulation? I guess if it is a boring sequential game the ship could decloak, do SM and recloak all on the same turn, but I still don't think you can do SM while cloaked...

[ April 19, 2003, 05:22: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]